Internet Annoyances 

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• 1. Internet Annoyances

• 2. Table of Contents

• 3. Copyright

• 4. Introduction

  Introduction

• 5. WHY WRITE INTERNET ANNOYANCES?

  WHY WRITE INTERNET ANNOYANCES?

• 6. HAVE AN ANNOYANCE?

  HAVE AN ANNOYANCE?

• 7. HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

  HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

• 8. CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS BOOK

  CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS BOOK

• 9. O REILLY WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU

  O REILLY WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU

• 10. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

• 11. Chapter 1. Email and Spam Annoyances

  Chapter 1. Email and Spam Annoyances

• 12. GENERAL EMAIL ANNOYANCES

  Outlook Outlook Express and Hotmail GMAIL OFFERS POP3 ACCESS (OR IT WILL) NEO A Key to Mood Watch Color Codes TinyURL STOP BUGGED EMAIL AND DANGEROUS SCRIPTS GENERAL EMAIL ANNOYANCES

• 13. SPAM

  WHAT IS A BAYESIAN FILTER? WHAT ARE HASH-BUSTING AND SPAMMERWOCKY? The Birth of Spam WILL MY NEWSLETTER BE CONSIDERED SPAM? LISTSERV LITE SPAM

• 14. OUTLOOK 2003 AND OUTLOOK EXPRESS 6

• 15. GMAIL

  DOES GMAIL INVADE YOUR PRIVACY? GMAIL

• 16. EUDORA 6

  EUDORA 6

• 17. Chapter 2. Making the Connection Annoyances

  Chapter 2. Making the Connection Annoyances

• 18. GENERAL CONNECTION ANNOYANCES

  GENERAL CONNECTION ANNOYANCES

• 20. ROUTERS AND HOME NETWORKS

  UNDERSTANDING DHCP AND NAT ROUTERS AND HOME NETWORKS

• 21. Chapter 3. Wireless Annoyances

  Chapter 3. Wireless Annoyances

• 22. HOME WIRELESS NETWORKS AND ROUTERS

  GIVE YOUR ACCESS POINT A BOOST Buy a Prebuilt Cantenna THE TRUTH BEHIND SPEEDBOOST Find Your WiFi Adapter s MAC Address UNDERSTANDING 802.11 STANDARDS WIRELESS GAME ADAPTERS DO DOUBLE DUTY HOME WIRELESS NETWORKS AND ROUTERS

• 23. CELL PHONES AND THE NET

  What s in a Name? CELL PHONES AND THE NET

• 24. WIFI SECURITY

  Use Normal Network Security Too WAITING FOR THE WIRELESSMAN WIFI SECURITY

• 25. HOTSPOTS

• 26. Chapter 4. Web Hosting, Design, and Blog Annoyances

  Chapter 4. Web Hosting Design and Blog Annoyances

• 27. DOMAIN AND HOSTING HASSLES

  MAKE SURE YOU RE LISTED AS THE DOMAIN CONTACT Snip Your URLs DOMAIN AND HOSTING HASSLES

• 28. DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE HELP

  WHY ARE THERE SO MANY TOP-LEVEL DOMAINS? WEB-BASED AUTHORING TOOLS GOODBYE TO FRONTPAGE EXTENSIONS HOW MONITORS DISPLAY THE WEB PALETTE JPEG OR GIF? PROTECT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE HELP

• 29. BLOGGING

  BLOG VIA CELL PHONE CHECKING THE BLOG ZEITGEIST Goodbye to Google BLOGGING

• 30. Chapter 5. Browser Annoyances

  Chapter 5. Browser Annoyances

• 31. POP-UPS, ADS, AND FLASH

  HOMEGROWN AD KILLER WHO CLICKS RICH MEDIA ADS? Proxomitron Kills Flash Too POP-UPS ADS AND FLASH

• 32. FAVORITES AND BOOKMARKS

  BETTER FAVORITES AND BOOKMARK MANAGEMENT Create an Undeletable Favorites Folder FAVORITES AND BOOKMARKS

• 33. WORKING THE INTERFACE

• 34. SPEEDUPS AND SHORTCUTS

  Beware of IE s Password Memory SPEEDIER DOWNLOADS WITH DAP TURN OFF THE NOTIFICATION BOX SPEEDUPS AND SHORTCUTS

• 35. COOKIES

• 36. Chapter 6. AOL Annoyances

  Chapter 6. AOL Annoyances

• 37. GENERAL AOL ANNOYANCES

  THE CASE OF THE 2 500 AOL CONNECTION USE KEEP-ALIVE SOFTWARE Block That Access Report Inappropriate Sites GENERAL AOL ANNOYANCES

• 38. EMAIL

  ALTERNATIVES TO AOL EMAIL AOL S SPAM CONTROLS EMAIL

• 39. Chapter 7. Im Annoyances

  Chapter 7. Im Annoyances

• 40. GENERAL INSTANT MESSAGING ANNOYANCES

• 41. AOL INSTANT MESSENGER (AIM)

  Opera/9.80 (Macintosh, Intel Mac OS X 10.6.6, U, en) Presto/2.8.131 Version/11.10

• 42. WINDOWS MESSENGER

  What if You Don t Have SP2? OTHER PORTS TO OPEN FOR WINDOWS MESSENGER DISABLE MESSENGER SLOW OUTLOOK EXPRESS WINDOWS MESSENGER

• 43. YAHOO MESSENGER

  YAHOO MESSENGER

• 44. ICQ

  ICQ

• 45. Chapter 8. Searching Annoyances

  Chapter 8. Searching Annoyances

• 46. GENERAL SEARCH ANNOYANCES

  Freely Ferret Out Information WHERE TO GET MEDICAL INFORMATION GENERAL SEARCH ANNOYANCES

• 47. GOVERNMENT AND THE LAW

  THE CASE OF THE MYSTERIOUS INTERNET TAX FIND YOUR CONGRESSMAN S EMAIL ADDRESS CUT THROUGH THE JARGON What Is the Deep Web GOVERNMENT AND THE LAW

• 48. GOOGLE

  GOOGLE DESKBAR TIPS WHAT IS GOOGLE BOMBING? EVEN MORE THINGS TO FIND ON GOOGLE EXAMINE THE ZEITGEIST WITH GOOGLE GOOGLE

• 49. AMAZON

  Get the A9 Toolbar PEEK INTO THE FUTURE WITH AMAZON AMAZON

• 50. EBAY

  EBAY

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